The ordinance prohibited slavery in the territory north and west of the Ohio River while also requiring the return of people escaping from labor service. The contradiction shows how the new republic could restrict slavery’s expansion in one region while protecting slaveholders’ claims across jurisdictional lines. Indigenous nations’ lands were also being claimed for settler expansion under the same ordinance.
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What contradiction appeared in the Northwest Ordinance?
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The ordinance combined a territorial slavery ban with a fugitive clause.